Ryder Strong

He immediately arrests Jonathan and Willie for, of course, quote unquote, defacing property.

Then after spending some more time in his cell, Jonathan is set free, but Willie is kept behind bars.

The Reverend promises he'll get him out.

And so now Jonathan is walking the streets and very paranoid when he notices he's being followed.

It's one of the Klansmen from before, at least he thinks it is, now asking him questions and acting very threatening.

Jonathan tries to explain his motives of love and peace, but the man pushes him against the wall and pulls out a gun.

And just like that, he's killed in broad daylight.

Now, I do want to say something here because, as I said, I Googled everybody.

And so when I Googled his story, his story is actually even more amazing than what they did in the film.

Really?

What happened was he and I think they kind of put an amalgamation of the characters.

So I think they made it Willie.

But in real life, he and another black protester were put in jail.

when they were released from jail, they met up with two.

He also taught a lot of children how to read in Selma and in the town.

That was one of the things he was doing.

He was helping the children of the town and he was registering voters.

He ended up going with two young black girls, teenagers, to the only place in town that served the young black people drinks, served them sodas.

So they were going to get sodas during the middle of the day, four of them, when a white man stepped on the porch

and said the stores closed and raised a shotgun at the four of them.